{"id":95654,"date":"2019-09-01T09:03:48","date_gmt":"2019-09-01T16:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/elon-musk-humanity-is-a-kind-of-biological-boot-loader-for-ai"},"modified":"2019-09-01T09:03:48","modified_gmt":"2019-09-01T16:03:48","slug":"elon-musk-humanity-is-a-kind-of-biological-boot-loader-for-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/elon-musk-humanity-is-a-kind-of-biological-boot-loader-for-ai","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk: Humanity Is a Kind of \u2018Biological Boot Loader\u2019 for AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/elon-musk-humanity-is-a-kind-of-biological-boot-loader-for-ai2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Alibaba cofounder Jack Ma took the stage at the World AI Conference in Shanghai to debate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/tag\/artificial-intelligence\/\">artificial intelligence<\/a> and its implications for humanity. As expected, Ma took a far more optimistic stance than Musk. Ma encouraged people to have faith in humanity, our creativity, and the future. \u201cI don\u2019t think artificial intelligence is a threat,\u201d he said, to which Musk replied, \u201cI don\u2019t know, man, that\u2019s like, famous last words.\u201d An edited transcript of the discussion follows.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Elon Musk:<\/strong> What are we supposed to say? Just things about AI perhaps? Yeah. Okay. Let\u2019s see.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jack Ma:<\/strong> The AI, right? Okay, great.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Alibaba cofounder Jack Ma took the stage at the World AI Conference in Shanghai to debate artificial intelligence and its implications for humanity. As expected, Ma took a far more optimistic stance than Musk. Ma encouraged people to have faith in humanity, our creativity, and the future. \u201cI [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2019,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-elon-musk","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}